Just wondering how everyone here found out about the OS-tans...
I found out about them while researching OS advocacy and zealotry on wikipedia. I stumbled across the page, and the second I saw them...I knew I found something great :D
I found them through wikipedia.
After a long search through google image search, after finding an XP-tan wallpaper at some forum. Had to try several key words until finding the same wallpaper @ minitokyo. Then I learnt about the term "OS-tans", which lead me to Wakachan, Otakubell, and other OS-tan related sites.
I just happened to stumble upon a little article on wikipedia about OS anime characters.
First i got a Wallpaper from my friend where i could see Xp-Tan and i wondered who she was. Because i never saw her before in any mangas nor in animes. (my friend didn't know her either)
Then i started to search for her (Xp-Tan) it was hard to find anything because i didn't know that she was called "Xp-tan" i didn't know the name "troubled Windows" too -.-
so i search a whole week for her until i found the openning song from "otakubell"
and from there i found the name of xp-tan and the title where she coes from^^
and per google picture search i found this forum^^ hehehe
and joined them ;010
the usual, saw ME on the net, then worked my way up!
Was browsing /f/ on 4chan about three years ago, and someone posted the Troubled Windows flash. Fell in love with them right there. ;)
I searched in Wikipedia for "Tux" and found a link to OS-tan...
I found Firefox-sama some year ago, then on this new year's eve i was doing some neboke surfing, and after some random photobucket rampage, i stumbled across this place, and lurked for a month and a half. The rest is well documented ^_^
It was actually this site which introduced me to the OS-tans, though I didn't join initially. I instead perused the gallery and C-Chan's old art threads, plus a couple of others, until I thought I had read enough as to not insult someone. Unfortunately, I was quite wrong. ^^'
How I got to this site?... well I don't rightly remember. Probably google, or maybe Wikipedia? ^^;
*whacks Tsubashi w/ paper fan*
Even as a vampire you still self-depracate.... -v-
Probably long and buried by now, but I too was lured into OS-tans by Wikipe-tan. -.-
vampire = goth = emo?
Anyhow, about 3-4 years ago, I saw the troubled windows flash, did a little research and loaded an archive of pictures.. it wasnt untill much later i discovered this dying shell of a forum... that of course as since changed (ahh the days when there may not be a fresh post for weeks at a time...)
Dreaming of moddin' that kinda forum, eh cappy? ^_^ Then again, I bet it's not half as fun as this, neee~?
Found the wiki article
I was actually looking for different pics of manga and anime girls through Google Image Search, and somehow fell upon a pic with the girls in it. Needless to say, I decided to research it more, and found the Wikipedia links and various other links, including the one to here.
Call it strange, but
I was introduced to the OS-tans by stumbling upon a pic of Vista-tan,
the scary one with her glowing red eyes and shadows all over.
I was on WAKAchan going through the yaoi thread. When I went through all the pages, I noticed an OS-tan thread. At the time didn't know what they were so I clicked on it and met the girls for the first time ^^
I get the feeling that's somehow appropriate for some oddball reason...yet so very, very wrong. -.-
I found them on wikipedia.
4 Chan.
i found some xp-tan image when i'm looking for new wallpaper.. i think its google image and it interest me
I saw OS-Tans various times, but in all the enormous mass of manga sites I visited, I even forgot of it.
I remember once, I said to myself: "Well... it is another form of fanart!"...
Then I spotted wikipedia and discovered OS-tans.
"Wow! It is more than fanart! It is a phenomenon!!!
But I still considered it just a curiosity.
In recent times as there were a concrete return of the Amiga on the market I returned to wikipedia in order to find a valuable fanart site in which to post my homemade AmigaOS-Tan, because the elder mascotte (Amy the Squirrel) was not so MANGA STYLE for my taste...
But I visited wikipedia only to discover from OS-Tan related articles that C-Chan had already made one! And she is a very pretty girl! ;010 ;hi
Sure, this second visit to wikipedia let me also find about OSTAN-Diamond, now OSTan-Collection, and another community of friends I decided to join with.
ALSO...
Well... There was still MorphOS-Tan waiting to be realized I said to myself, and infacts I just realized it... ;003
*holds up plate*
Speaking of which,.... ^__^
*puppy eyes*
Please sir,... May I have some final drafts of MOS-chan? @v@
*squeals with delight*
Thank you, by the way. ^__^
Did you get to see the latest draft of Sandy Belle Amiga? 'v'
http://ostan-collections.net/post-28594.html#28594
Told you she would've made a better cut-out than my first one. ^^
First encounter was searching for wallpaper on Google. Saved a couple but never thought much about it.
A year later I feel like making my desktop copy Vista since I'm cheap. I got the skin and icons, but a few icons still looked kind of boring, so I went on DeviantArt to search for some more. After running across a few images of Firefox-tan in my search, I decided to use Wikipedia to see how popular this trend was. More than I expected, that's for sure.
i found them mainly on wiki, and also i googled some details^ ^
and also i was not very good at english so i waited somebody to translate them into chinese-v-
It was in July or August 2005 when I first saw the OS-tans, and it was when I was checking out a Pokémon fansite, checking out the fan art section when I stumbled upon a picture of ME-tan which also had a link to the wiki article and right away I knew it would be something I would really really like!
My liking for the OS-tans has been going on for almost two years and is still going very strong!
You've known of OS-tans for quite awhile, Aurora!
completely By accident, the good kind, I was stuck on ideas on what to draw so I roamed Wikipedia, and BOOM, I found'em
I found them through Wiki @_@
I believe I found them through Wikipedia, but I'm not 100% sure. I might have just come across them by accident while on the net.
Looked around on Wikipedia wondering what Wikipe-tan was.
Then I found you guys.
I saw OS-Tan many times but I didn't give it much importance, because I thought of it like a singular case... Well, I was just wandering looking for Wii, and I found Console Girls... Googling around I found OS-Tan (I thought they were really cute!!!)... Eventually in Wikipedia I found this wonderful site!!!
Hmm~ looks like we owe a lot to Wikipe-tan as for bringing in members...thanksgiving time maybe? ^-^
Bouncing XP-tan flash
troubled Windows flash
Google search
Wikipedia
then this site :D
Well I actually saw a OS-tan without knowing what it was, several months later I stumbled upon the XP-tan flash startup screen. After searching I canme upon this site.
I've been a fan of M.U.G.E.N for a few years...And so evenutally I came across 2chan's mugen "Nijikaku" and Found the best char in the entire game (In my opinion at least) was 2K-Tan, Then eventually I heard someone in another Mugen forum us the word "Os-tan" Searches on google Led me here...and the rest is history
I stumbled apon a XP tan picture whilst flipping through the random article button.
:D thats how I found out.
I found them while on waka chan and had to find out more about them.
I was at my friends house one day and I saw an anime-esc girl(2k) with the windows logo, covered in, well... Anyway I was curious as to the origin of the pic and asked my friend if It was an official windows ad. (they sure caught my interest). He laughed and said no. I later looked into it on the net and eventually found this site.
Quickly found it through Wiki. I was looking through some Harem Animes, and some OS things, and I found this. Can't remember to clearly, but yeah, Wikipedia is AWESOME.... ;010
so umm i liked anime so i searched anime on wikipedia
then i saw wikipe-tan
then i saw os-tan
then i saw this site
I found myself about OS-tan quite similarly with you all.. I found it while searching randomly to Wiki.. (kinda forgot what exactly i look was..-_- )
BUt i do remember when, i found about the OS-tan 'TV opening' like video. in youtube.. I really though that the OS-Tan was made into anime.. and though ' How could i miss this anime??' ^_^
quite by chance I found a folder labeled "Operative System Girls" while browsing someones filelist on DC++, looking for Postal 2.
I thought "hmmm interesting"and downloaded it, liked it -a lot- and asked my big friend Google if she knew anything about this phenomenon, she told me to go to this site and 750 pics later, here I am a registered user hooked on OS-tans :D
I was on a forum and a member created a poll about os-tan and had a link to this website.
Oh, it's good question. I search with google 'linux anime girls' (I like anime and I like Linux ^_^). I found them on the some blog, I don't remember. And, by the one of the links, I found OS-tan on the wikipedia.
Thanks to this site and all people who draw OS-tans! I download more than 700 images, they are so cute!
o-o It's like the abcs, I don't remember a time when they didn't exist!
a long time ago on /b/, and i've never bothered to look for a collection of os-tan stuff until now. i think XP was the first one i ever saw.
And why, oh why am I not surprised at all by this fact?
Ask me, I dare you, anyone.
saw them on 4chan's megaslots, after that i liked them and found them on wiki.
hi everyone. me new here.
frankly speaking, I have no idea what an OS-tan was until i came to this site.. i tot they were called windows girls or whatever..
4chan introduced me...lol is that bad to say
I found out about them a couple years ago on a blog, the name of which slips my mind right now
(Hopefully you won't mind me bringing back such an old topic)
I first discovered OS-tans many years ago. I can't remember where, but I saw XP-tan somewhere, but didn't think much of it (I figured it was some kind of Office Assistant, like Clippit or the parrot my grandma had on her desktop). Years later, someone started a topic about them on GameFAQs, which let me to a YouTube video and the article on Wikipedia, and then to here.
I know about their in wikipedia, when I make a investigation for the institute-nyo
I found them over 4chan's comic thing. At first glance at them I was like "WTF? Is this real or not?" then i googled windows XP anime and found this..
hope that makes sense.
My first computer a couple years ago happened to have Windows ME on it, and I was discussing my troubles with it in IRC when someone showed me an image of ME-tan, leading me to look it up. ^.^
My present computer has XP...
I found them when talking with a friend on MSN. Then I talked about lolifox and he asked if this was a firefox-tan. Then he told it was like a OS-tan. And then I ask him what is OS-tans and he told me.
Searching more info about it, I found this site and the wiki.
I was looking up info on Wikipe-tan when I saw a picture of the OS-tans that included my favorite OS-tan of all, ME, front and centre being levitated by CE-tan.
Firefox-tan. I found a picture of her called 'virtualfox'. After looking at other Firefox-tans, I found my way to here.
i dont know how but i 1st saw XP-tan on youtube than i saw ME-tan and did a google search on her than i did a search on OS-tan and thats how i found this site